Dr. Dima Barakat

Dr. Dima Barakat

CEO – Chairman of the Board of Directors – Vice Chairman of the Scientific Council

  • Director and owner of Midmac International Academy.
  • Director of the Regional Office of the American Board in Syria.
  • Director of Quality Assurance and Accreditation, Gezira Private University.
  • Director of the University Requirements Unit, Syrian Private University.
  • Member of the Board of Trustees – Syrian Trainers Foundation.
  • Member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
  • Member of the International Union of the Arabic Language, Beirut.
  • Regional Director of the American Board Office in Syria.
  • Resident Director, Academic Coordinator, and Practical Training Coordinator for the American Flagship Program for Postgraduate Studies in Learning the Arabic Language in Syria – University of Damascus.
  • An official examiner for measuring language proficiency in the Language Testing International (LTI) in the United States of America.
  • Certified teacher training trainer from the Council for Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (CAFL) in the United States of America – Virginia.
  • Developed curricula for teaching Arabic as a second language at the American universities of Maryland, Yale, and Texas, the British Al-Maktoum College, the Zayed House of Culture, and the Ministry of Culture in the United Arab Emirates.
  • Developed a test to measure proficiency in the Arabic language in the three skills (reading, listening, and writing) according to the standards of the American government scale at King Saud University.
  • Certified trainer and training director from the Arab Trainers Union – the Council for Arab Economic Unity of the League of Arab States.
  • Director of Quality Assurance and Accreditation, Gezira Private University.
  • Director of Student Affairs, Gezira Private University.
  • Director of Public Relations and Media at Gezira Private University.
  • Head of the University Requirements Department, Gezira Private University.
  • Director of the University Requirements Unit, at the Syrian Private University.
  • A faculty member in private Syrian universities.
  • Academic coordinator and trainer for professors of the Department of Teaching Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages, Higher Institute of Languages, University of Damascus.
  • Instructor in the American programs (NFLP-AFIC), the Danish Economic Program, the British Special Programs (SOAS-DARM), and the American and British Diplomatic Programs in the Department of Teaching Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages, Higher Institute of Languages, University of Damascus.
  • A key member of the Arab research team on the reality of the Arabic language and its future in the Arab world, under the supervision and sponsorship of the Ministry of Culture in the United Arab Emirates.
  • Member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.